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English

Etymology

disguise +? -er

Noun

disguiser (plural disguisers)

1. A person or thing that disguises.

   A voice disguiser alters a person’s voice to protect their anonymity.

   Incense can be used as an odour disguiser.

   • c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act IV, Scene 2,^[1]

     O, death’s a great disguiser; and you may add to it. Shave the head, and tie the beard; and say it was the desire of the penitent to be so bared before his death

   • 1696, Robert Howard, The Blind Lady Act V, Scene 3, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: Francis Saunders, p. 124,^[2]

     […] I should be friends

     With this disguise, could it but hide my crimes:

     But night it self that great disguiser,

     Wants power to conceal the least of crimes

     From any troubled breast […]

   • 1899, Robert Grant, Search-Light Letters, New York: Scribner, “To A Young Man or Woman in Search of the Ideal,” Letter II, pp. 29-30,^[3]

     If there were no alcohol or cigars, would not those who now use either to excess have recourse to some other form of stimulant or fatigue and pain disguiser instead?

   • 2010, Garry Wills, “Stealing Newman,” The New York Review, 16 September, 2010,^[4]

     Benedict was once a scholar and now claims to be infallible in matters of faith or morals. But on the clearest facts of history he is a dissembler and disguiser.

2. (archaic, historical) A person who wears a disguise; an actor in a masque or masquerade; a masker.
   • 1548, Edward Hall, The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre [and] Yorke (also known as Hall’s Chronicle), London: Richard Grafton, “The triumphaunt reigne of Kyng Henry the VIII,”^[5]

     […] out of a caue in the said Rock came .x. knightes, armed at all poyntes, & faughte together a fayre tournay. And when they were seuered & departed the disguysers dissended from the rock & daunced a great space: & sodeynly the rocke moued & receaued the disguysers, & ymediatly closed agayn.

   • 1904, Edward Dowden, Robert Browning, London: J.M. Dent, Chapter 4, p. 76,^[6]

     Browning’s poems of the love of man and woman are seldom a simple lyrical cry, but they are not on this account the less true in their presentment of that curious masquer and disguiser—Love. When love takes possession of a nature which is complex, affluents and tributaries from many and various faculties run into the main stream.

   • 1987, Thomas M. Greene, “Ben Jonson and the Centered Self” in Harold Bloom (ed.), Modern Critical Views: Ben Jonson, New York: Chelsea House Publishers, p. 100,^[7]

     A kind of witty complicity emerges occasionally from Jonson’s treatment of his disguisers, to suggest that he was taken with their arts in spite of himself.

English

Etymology

From Middle English disgisen, disguisen, borrowed from Old French desguiser (modern French déguiser), itself derived from des- (“dis-”) (from Latin dis-) + guise (“guise”) (from a Germanic source).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?s??a?z/, /d?z??a?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?s??a?z/, /d??ska?z/
• Hyphenation: dis?guise
• Rhymes: -a?z

Noun

disguise (countable and uncountable, plural disguises)

1. Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another.

   A cape and moustache completed his disguise.

2. (figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath.
3. The act of disguising, notably as a ploy.

   Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.

4. (archaic) A change of behaviour resulting from intoxication.

Synonyms

• camouflage
• guise
• mask
• pretense

Translations

Verb

disguise (third-person singular simple present disguises, present participle disguising, simple past and past participle disguised)

1. (transitive) To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.

   Spies often disguise themselves.
2. (transitive) To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.

   He disguised his true intentions.

3. (archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.

   • I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the slip.

Synonyms

• camouflage
• cloak
• mask
• hide

Derived terms

• disguisedly
• disguisement
• disguiser

Translations